The changes wrought by scientific-technical innovation are far outrunning the capacity of our temperamentally conservative institutions to keep up with them.

What is new is not identity politics, but politics as identity—and it’s driving a culture of grievance.

Half a century ago, Poland was rocked by student protests and anti-Semitic purges that it has never fully grappled with—and which still divide the country to this day.

The decline of manufacturing really is as disastrous as common sense suggests.

As the fulcrum of power moves away from the West, so does America. This fact lies at the core of the President’s intuitions about the world.

A sexual harassment scandal in Russia’s parliament threatens to expose the Putin regime’s hollow, hypocritical commitment to “traditional values.”

Though little noticed abroad, the political terrain in Pakistan is rapidly shifting as the religious parties lose ground to the moderate middle class. Can the trend make a difference in the long run?

Political parties are both weak and strong in the United States. What does that portend for our democracy?

Thomas Wright’s book from last year correctly diagnosed our foreign policy predicament. The extent to which his prescriptions are unworkable in the Age of Trump tells us even more.

In the competition with China, U.S. commerce and national security need to be brought into alignment.